Well sing from on high, readers, let jubilation reign, let the Ferrero Roche be snapped up at half price along with some unpronounceable bottles of plonk. It’s that time of year once again when the film industry cherry picks the most palatable and lauded of its offerings from the last twelve months and decides which […]
The Old Man & the Gun – Review
Few of us get to decide how we will go when our time comes, and even fewer will make such a choice willingly. A lifetime spent on screen sounds like a boastful statement and perhaps not a bad way to have lived, but the movies tend not to let go of the greats without a […]
Robin Hood – Review
I wondered to myself this week, if what the world really needed in November 2018 was a new grim-dark remake of Robin Hood; a story so thoroughly done to death in Western cinema that when Hollywood tried this in 2009, audiences and critics panned it and collectively prayed it would be the last we saw […]
The Haunting Lessons of Issue Horror
A desolate castle rising out of a jagged hilltop, surrounded on all sides by dense forest. A full moon in the inky, starless sky above. Here there be monsters, make no mistake. In this sunken place, there lives a stalking, ghoulish creature, with sallow skin and narrow eyes; the eyes of a killer. One who feeds […]
Remember This: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Not so long ago, in the mysterious land of Los Angeles, California, Edgar Wright was writing a screenplay. Fresh from the transatlantic success of his previous film Hot Fuzz – a movie so quotable that friendships have been made purely by dropping a heavily accented ‘for the greater good’ into casual conversation – Hollywood approached Wright […]
‘Hell is behind that door!’: Revisiting Dario Argento’s Suspiria
There’s a moment in Juno where our heroine exclaims, ‘Dario Argento is so the master of horror’ which was a pretty niche reference for 2007, never mind the context around it. But now, eleven years on, there does seem to be more talk of Argento in the mainstream because, as is so often the case […]
Regeneration
There was something undeniably joyous in hearing Jodie Whittaker, newly regenerated from the wiry frame and broad Scottish accent of Peter Capaldi (Doctor the Twelfth), suddenly exclaim ‘Oh, brilliant!’ in her own thick, West Yorkshire dialect. Aside from giving me pleasant flashbacks to hearing Christopher Eccleston bounding around the TARDIS in years gone by, finally […]